September 5, 2025: Friday 10

September 5 is here, and that means it’s time to put my music player on shuffle and for you guys to guess the artists and titles! As always, the rules:

1. No Searching.
2. You only have to be close to the title. (“Um, Actually” rules apply — you get the point if you’re close, unless someone gets closer)
3. I give credit for cover versions, but they have to be easy to find. “Puddle of Dumb covered it once at an Arbor Day concert in 2007 — I think the bootleg is on eTree” is an awesome deep cut, but I won’t count it.

As with last time, you have until next Friday to guess. Then I’ll post the answers, and that’s it!

And if you want to see the answers for last week, they’re over on their own post!

This Week’s Lyrics

1. Step 2: Don’t React. Don’t retract, but don’t attack.
   Tom Cardy, “Get Louis Theroux It”
   📺 https://youtu.be/B5xnG1VfR3E?si=CrgqcRPqA2laI-4l
   
2. I want to drink the shine of the mountains from my canteen.
   Eddie From Ohio, “How Far to the Water”
   📺 https://youtu.be/nltDX4shztA?si=758eenYVuymKN4cu
   
3. A woman is a branchy tree, and man’s a clinging vine.
   Pentangle, “Let No Man Steal Your Thyme” (Traditional)
   📺 https://youtu.be/56w94j0CQ78?si=oyQqUc1WuXjgZXR7
   
4. When you take a look inside yourself, do you wish you were something else?
   Cast of Descendants 2, “You and Me”
   📺 https://youtu.be/Q0kuJ3lPnPY?si=CbtmfOG3gHw6RB9D
   
5. I dream of the places I’ve been with you, how we sat with the stream flowing by.
   Günter Kallmann Choir, “Daydream” (Wallace Collection cover)
   📺 https://youtu.be/gQzX7_PvQww?si=DxP9VWfmZkHlls4Z
   
6. They were put there by a man in a factory downtown. Identified by John.
   The Presidents of the United States of America, “Peaches”
   📺 https://youtu.be/3GCrzjVdmSg?si=fS8w9NKFYujVaFat
   
7. Back in high school I knew a girl — not too simple and not too kind.
   They Might Be Giants, “She Thinks She’s Edith Head”
   📺 https://youtu.be/Ag_wH8J6bKE?si=SYPNIUyfmFrnWKC4
   
8. A cut glass bowl — free with four gallons — is now the companion of what once was the champion…
   Nick Lowe, “Endless Grey Ribbon”
   📺 https://youtu.be/k4kDXQRC1JQ?si=sHq7fePlOsy5H5uB
   
9. 高級車は買える免許は無い愛車 green, green
   (English Translation: I can afford luxury cars without a license — my car is Green, Green)
   Creepy Nuts, “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born”
   📺 https://youtu.be/5NzfqW_Yt6Y?si=6DQYYCsuXFj9wJQp
   
10. I’ll sit around, you get yourself a new life.
    Bowling for Soup, “Get Happy”
    📺 https://youtu.be/qJQeKhilneA?si=rYDn130drKFfx0jj

And once you’ve taken a stab at those, stop by my brother’s blog where he has his own set of ten lyrics for you to guess!